Last week, while walking the Erie Canal path, a friend and I came upon a beautiful pileated woodpecker. He was looking for food in the roots of a tree that had just been removed. I wondered if he had been evacuated from his home in that tree. He was stunning....

Today, I was enjoying a quick bite at Panera, and wrote out my “morning pages”. For those who don’t know what morning pages are, they are three long hand written pages of writing anything that comes to mind done daily, in the morning, as a way to...